Ref. Ares(2020)3154891 - 17/06/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
The Director-General
Brussels
ENER/DJ/AV(2020) 3453179
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
DADCI Lala Hakuma
27 rue de Chartres
75018 Paris
France
Advance copy by email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/1515
Dear Ms Dadci,
We refer to your e-mail dated 16/03/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
the minutes of the following meetings:
1) 18/02/2020 between Commissioner Kadri Simson and The European Steel
Association (EUROFER) on European Green Deal for the steel industry; clean energy
technologies including hydrogen, renewables for clean steel production
2) 14/02/2020 between Commissioner Kadri Simson and Shell Companies (Shell) on
Energy policy priorities of the Commission, impact of the Green Deal on the energy
sector and innovative solutions that would help the EU reach its climate and energy
targets
3) 13/02/2020 between Helena Hinto and European Energy Network (EnR) on
Introduction of European Green Deal and 2020 energy initiatives
4) 14/02/2020 between Laure Chapuis-Kombos and Shell Companies (Shell) on Energy
policy priorities of the Commission, impact of the Green Deal on the energy sector and
innovative solutions that would help the EU reach its climate and energy targets
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/084 - Tel. direct line +32 229-62496
xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
5) 18/02/2020 between Kitti Nyitrai, Stefano Grassi and The European Steel Association
(EUROFER) on European Green Deal for the steel industry; clean energy technologies
including hydrogen, renewables for clean steel production
6) 02/03/2020 between Laure Chapuis-Kombos and ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (EDF)
on Green Deal, climate law, dialogues with 3rd countries, renewables.
7) 17/12/2019 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and International
Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) on Green Deal, methane emissions and
decarbonisation
8) 18/12/2019 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and Gas Infrastructure
Europe (GIE) on Green Deal, methane emissions and decarbonisation
9) 30/01/2020 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and Gas Distributors for
Sustainability (GD4S) on Green Deal and Renewable gas in Europe
10) 31/01/2020 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and European Chemical
Industry Council (Cefic) on The role of the Energy Intensive Industries in the European
Green Deal
11) 04/02/2020 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and Euroheat & Power
(EHP) on Green Deal and the role of decarbonising heating and cooling)
12) 20/02/2020 between Director-General Ditte Juul Jorgensen and Atlantic Council on
EU -US energy cooperation and Energy Security in the context of the Green Deal
Fully accessible document
For documents n° 3, we are glad to inform you that you can have full access. Please find
enclosed a copy of the document requested - Ares(2020)2860959.
Partially accessible documents
With regard to the documents n° 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, we are glad to inform you
that you can have wide partial access, subject only to the redaction of personal data. Please
find enclosed redacted copies of the identified documents -
Ares(2020)1935653,
Ares(2020)2228137, Ares(2020)2750199, Ares(2020)2749864, Ares(2020)2749405,
Ares(2020)3112983, Ares(2020)2750308, Ares(2020)2750078.
Complete disclosure of these documents is prevented by the exception concerning the
protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, because it contains the following personal data:
- the name of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management;
-
the names of other natural persons.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation does not allow the transmission of these
personal data, except if you prove that it is necessary to have the data transmitted to you
for a specific purpose in the public interest and where there is no reason to assume that
the legitimate interests of the data subject might be prejudiced. In your request, you do
not express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put
forward any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a
specific purpose in the public interest.
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Documents not existing
For documents n° 6, the services of the Directorate General for Energy (“DG Energy”)
consulted the Cabinet of Commissioner Simson. However, they informed us that the
meeting planned on 02/03/2020 with EDF did not take place.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
Means of redress
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
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